A Classic Meal For A Frosty Winter Evening

A frosty evening can be the perfect time to savor hot and luscious concoctions that nourish and warm the body. A favorite French dish of mine, the "Pot au Feu", or Pot on Fire, is a flavorful heartwarming soup added with meat cutlets and vegetables such as onions, leeks, turnips, cabbages, and carrots. This dish is easy to carry-out since whatever available ingredients you have can be used in creating this tasty French stew. Incipiently, this stew is the custom ware for poor people because scrap meats and leftover vegetables were the usual ingredients. But nowadays, it is considered as a regular French food, not only among the financially challenged, but also among the affluent crowd. To actualize your own version, you can add more vegetables and herbs to make it a more nourishing meal and if you don't want to use leftover meat cutlets, you can use any kind of beef cutlets. The classic partner for a steaming bowl of "Pot au Feu" is a glass of French mulled wine such as "Vin Chaud," which is a warmed wine mixed with flavorful spices. A spicy drink and a bowl of warm soup is surely the perfect meal to heat you up especially on a frosty night.